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Fatal FREE BIRD
strike
Woman hit and
killed by train in
S’Park: NYPD
BY JULIANNE MCSHANE
A woman was struck and
killed by a train after jumping
onto the tracks at the 59th
Street station in Sunset Park
on the morning of April 1,
police said.
The woman jumped in
front of the train at around
8:15 a.m., according to an
NYPD spokesman, who
added that the victim was
between 30 and 40 years old
and that police have not yet
identified her.
The Metropolitan Transit
Authority announced
on Twitter shortly after the
woman was struck that the
incident had caused “extensive
delays and service
changes” for the D, N, and R
lines, and that there would
be no R train service between
the 36th Street and
95th Street stations.
The N and R lines resumed
full service a little
more than two hours after
the incident occurred.
Sick P’Park
hawk nursed
back to health
BY COLIN MIXSON
This bird’s prospects are
looking up.
A Kings County hawk
found poisoned in Prospect
Park last week will survive
thanks to the efforts
of a Queens fi refi ghter and
his animal-loving wife, who
look forward to releasing the
downy hunter next week at a
more hawk-friendly park.
“We know there’s poison
out there,” said Bobby Horvath,
who runs the Wildlife in
Need of Rescue group with his
wife, Kathy Horvath. “If this
happens again, it may not be
so lucky.”
The on-the-mend hawk
fell deathly ill last week after
snacking on a mouse, or rat
poisoned with Rodenticide,
a deadly toxin commonly
employed by city exterminators,
and the big-hearted
fi refi ghter swooped in for the
rescue after Prospect Park Alliance
Forestry, Wildlife, and
Continued on page 30
Bark Slope!
SMOOCH-Y GUY: First-graders pet and read to Fonzie, a German shepherd, and several other
four-legged audience members at Kids Read to Dogs event at PowerHouse on Eighth bookstore in
Park Slope on March 27. For more, see page 10. Photo by Caroline Ourso
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